CRUSADER
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Button Update;
(so far stumped the expert);
''Yes Donegal Militia, one of the Irish ones. It isn't one I have seen before so will see if anyone else who knows more about Irish stuff than me has come across it before.'
Further Update;
''My main Irish collector does indeed have one in his collection and points out the double N in Donnegal is very unusual and is what makes this particular style a bit of a curiosity!''
This small field is normally way too high with weeds to bother with. In fact we only tried it once in some died back areas with pretty poor results other than 1 scrappy. However, it was once ploughed years ago & this is the first time we have seen most of it cut flat. It has no Intel, so it was a blind hunt/gridding session.
Some signs were showing including the lead, so at half time I thought we had a chance at silver.
I did just over 5 Hours & Cru'Dad did 2.5 Hours;
2 Tudor Buttons
Donegal (Irish) Militia Button, Circa 1815 ish, I think its rare because its spells it DONNEGAL & I can't find another online!
2 Lead Tokens
Leather Mount
Watch Winder
Counterstamped Geo II Halfpenny - 'T TAYLOR' (Not in my book, only I or J Taylor)
Roman Nail Cleaner (Random!)
18th C Coin Weight
Medieval Lead Container thought to be either for Holy Water or Bird Seeds!
Very Rare Find - Charles II Shilling circa 1663-84 - Never found one, they start in the low hundreds & go up to £10,000 in EF condition! (Shame its so worn, the reverse is near blank)
(so far stumped the expert);
''Yes Donegal Militia, one of the Irish ones. It isn't one I have seen before so will see if anyone else who knows more about Irish stuff than me has come across it before.'
Further Update;
''My main Irish collector does indeed have one in his collection and points out the double N in Donnegal is very unusual and is what makes this particular style a bit of a curiosity!''
This small field is normally way too high with weeds to bother with. In fact we only tried it once in some died back areas with pretty poor results other than 1 scrappy. However, it was once ploughed years ago & this is the first time we have seen most of it cut flat. It has no Intel, so it was a blind hunt/gridding session.
Some signs were showing including the lead, so at half time I thought we had a chance at silver.
I did just over 5 Hours & Cru'Dad did 2.5 Hours;
2 Tudor Buttons
Donegal (Irish) Militia Button, Circa 1815 ish, I think its rare because its spells it DONNEGAL & I can't find another online!
2 Lead Tokens
Leather Mount
Watch Winder
Counterstamped Geo II Halfpenny - 'T TAYLOR' (Not in my book, only I or J Taylor)
Roman Nail Cleaner (Random!)
18th C Coin Weight
Medieval Lead Container thought to be either for Holy Water or Bird Seeds!
Very Rare Find - Charles II Shilling circa 1663-84 - Never found one, they start in the low hundreds & go up to £10,000 in EF condition! (Shame its so worn, the reverse is near blank)
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